by Michele Kirichanskaya | Nov 14, 2025 | Blog
Angela Hsieh is a Taiwanese American author and illustrator whose choices are mostly explained by her love of goofy animals, real and fantastical. Her life experiences include firefighter-carrying a sedated bear cub and catching a belligerent wallaby. Angela’s debut...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Nov 12, 2025 | Blog
Freya Marske is a USA Today bestselling author and has been nominated for two Hugo Awards. Her books include Swordcrossed and A Marvellous Light, which was an international bestseller and won the Romantic Novel Award for Fantasy. She lives in Australia. I had the...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Nov 7, 2025 | Blog
C.L. Clark (they/she) is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award-winning author of several books, including The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost trilogy), Fate’s Bane (a novella), and Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf (an Arcane novel). She graduated from Indiana...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Oct 31, 2025 | Blog
A former culture and travel reporter for CNN in Seoul and Hong Kong, Frances Cha taught at Ewha Womans University and Yonsei University. Currently, she teaches undergraduate fiction at Columbia University. Frances’s debut novel If I Had Your Face (Ballantine...
by Michele Kirichanskaya | Oct 24, 2025 | Blog
Hongwei Bao (he/him) is a Nottingham-based queer Chinese writer, translator and academic. He is part of the Fifth Word Playwrights, GOBS Spoken Word Collective and Nottingham Playhouse Writers’ Room. He is also a Middle Way Mentee for writing fiction and a New...
